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    The genetic basis for the adaptation of E. coli to sugar synthesis from CO2

    Understanding the evolution of a new metabolic capability in full mechanistic detail is challenging, as causative mutations may be masked by non-essential "hitchhiking" mutations accumulated during the evoluti...

    Elad Herz, Niv Antonovsky, Yinon Bar-On, Dan Davidi in Nature Communications (2017)

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    Communication between viruses guides lysis–lysogeny decisions

    Temperate viruses can become dormant in their host cells, a process called lysogeny. In every infection, such viruses decide between the lytic and the lysogenic cycles, that is, whether to replicate and lyse t...

    Zohar Erez, Ida Steinberger-Levy, Maya Shamir, Shany Doron in Nature (2017)

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    Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans

    The genome of Phytophthora infestans, the pathogen that triggered the Irish potato famine in the nineteenth century, has been sequenced. It remains a devastating pathogen, with late blight destroying crops worth ...

    Brian J. Haas, Sophien Kamoun, Michael C. Zody, Rays H. Y. Jiang in Nature (2009)